The irrepressible Bryan Cross sends this reply to my monstrous post from yesterday, blocked by an obviously Protestant combox:
"And so he gets an unfair reputation in some quarters as trying to intimidate with many words."
If article-length replies entail an attempt to "intimidate," all academics who write book-length replies must ipso facto be bullies. Perhaps twenty years from now, anything beyond a tweet-length reply will be considered an attempt to intimidate, and those who now think I am trying to "intimidate" with article-length replies, will themselves be dismissed as bullies for writing three paragraphs. A thorough reply should not be assumed to be an "attempt to intimidate," because it might very well be only an attempt to be thorough, as the first and greatest commandment of love calls us to love God with all our mind. Otherwise all the great doctors of the Church in her two-thousand year history were ipso facto uncharitable bullies for writing whole books against false positions.
In the peace of Christ,
Bryan
Clearly, he should have been a lawyer. [Ouch.--ed.] Well, just the facts. [I'll bet his dissertation makes War and Peace look like a health pamphlet.--ed.] Anyway, there we are.
"And so he gets an unfair reputation in some quarters as trying to intimidate with many words."
If article-length replies entail an attempt to "intimidate," all academics who write book-length replies must ipso facto be bullies. Perhaps twenty years from now, anything beyond a tweet-length reply will be considered an attempt to intimidate, and those who now think I am trying to "intimidate" with article-length replies, will themselves be dismissed as bullies for writing three paragraphs. A thorough reply should not be assumed to be an "attempt to intimidate," because it might very well be only an attempt to be thorough, as the first and greatest commandment of love calls us to love God with all our mind. Otherwise all the great doctors of the Church in her two-thousand year history were ipso facto uncharitable bullies for writing whole books against false positions.
In the peace of Christ,
Bryan
Clearly, he should have been a lawyer. [Ouch.--ed.] Well, just the facts. [I'll bet his dissertation makes War and Peace look like a health pamphlet.--ed.] Anyway, there we are.
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